"I am up at the front and entering Belleau Wood with the U.S. Marines." And with that final dispatch, war correspondent Floyd Gibbons - armed with nothing but his pen and paper - strolled into a ...
Depicts the Marines' charge through a wheat field around Belleau Wood to the town of Bouresches. Captions read: "June 6, 1918, saw one of the most spectacular bits of fighting that occurred during the ...
November 10 this year marks the 242nd birthday of the Marine Corps: 242 years of warfighting excellence. At places like Trenton, Tripoli, Chapultepec, Belleau Wood, Guadalcanal, Chosin ...